Bell v. Strange

On April 28, 2011, the Alabama Legislature passed Act No. 2011-197 (“Act No. 197”), a Senate Joint Resolution, creating the “Constitutional Revision Commission” (“the commission”). Act No. 197 charged the commission with reviewing certain articles of the Alabama Constitution and ■with recommending amendments to that document to the legislature.

On November 5, 2012, Sandra Bell filed a declaratory-judgment action, naming as defendants in their official capacities Attorney General Luther Strange, Lieutenant Governor Kay Ivy, President Pro Tem-pore of the Alabama Senate Del Marsh, Speaker of the…